The ability to control a home’s lighting sources can greatly affect the look of one’s home, its furnishings, décor, and architecture. GFI’s Home Technology Solutions offers the new homeowner a total solution to controlling their home’s lighting sources, both fixture and natural ambient. A long time dealer, designer, and installer of Lutron dimming technology, GFI provides the new homeowner with system choices and a multitude of options when choosing a lighting control system.

Vimco Shades, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lutron, provide the homeowner an automated option to controlling natural ambient light. This system helps reduce the home’s energy costs, fading of furnishings and décor, and provide a dimension of added security for the homeowner. Having the ability to automatically and precisely lower and raise shades is one of the claimed favorite options of homeowners when asked about all of their new home features. Automated shades are a welcomed convenience to home with vaulted ceilings that have incorporated large windows as an important architectural enhancement to the home’s feel. This is a popular choice in today’s Great Room designs, however, the homeowner tends to forget about the ability to control that room’s ambient light which results in a diminished use of the room for its intended purposes (i.e. watching TV). Vimco offers the homeowner numerous choices as to the style, motor, control, type, and fabric of their shade systems. Their extensive line is sure to please even the most discerning tastes.

Lutron’s lighting control systems for electronic sourced light are considered one of the best in the industry. For new custom homeowners, they have the choice of selecting either Lutron’s reliable RadioRA lighting control system or HomeWorks Interative, both having the ability to interface with the home’s other electronic systems including the security system, fire alarm system, and the home exterior landscape lighting. RadioRA is a radio frequency controlled system by which Lutron owns the radio frequency bandwidth that their system operates by, insuring reliable performance. RadioRA allows a homeowner to experience lighting control at a minimal investment and build onto the system with ease after they have moved into their new home. The RadioRA system conforms to the traditional installation electrical standards.

The ultimate in lighting control is achieved through Lutron’s HomeWorks Interactive lighting control system. HomeWorks, a ‘hard wired’ system geared toward new home construction, is the recommended lighting control system for custom homes exceeding 6,000 sq. ft. The system provides the solution to reducing unsightly wall clutter, an unavoidable result of ganging traditional light switches in today’s open floor plans. Gangs of three or more wall switches and dimmers can be consolidated to a single gang keypad, having the ability to control any light on the HomeWorks Interactive system. The dimming of lights can be totally automated through HomeWorks Interactive. The system is comprised of a computer processor that has the ability to interface with your home’s other electronic systems. Advanced planning with the electrical contractor and general contractor is required since the HomeWorks Interactive system design can eliminate some to all of the traditional electrical wall box requirements, simplifying the electrician’s installation.

The features of HomeWorks Interactive make this system the leading lighting control system in the industry. A vacation mode, a standard feature of HomeWorks, can replay a home’s lighting habits from the past twenty-four hours, three days, or seven days and replay them for up to fourteen days with randomization, providing a truly lived in look from the home’s exterior. A telephone interface can be added as an option, providing the ease of lighting control from a cell phone, making your home lighting control as easy as dialing your home phone number. HomeWorks integration capability is another welcomed feature of the system. It can be integrated with your home’s security system, when triggered, can be programmed to shut-off the operation of all HomeWork’s controlled interior devices while simultaneously sending a command to have the home’s exterior lights to flash on and off. Its interaction with the home’s fire alarm system can provide important assistants to a family as they are trying to escape their smoke filled home. The system can be programmed to dim pathway lights and flash the home exit locations, providing lifesaving guidance to victims of home fires.

Both Lutron’s lighting control systems have been designed with the ability to be integrated together and also control Vimco shades, making Lutron the industry leader in controlling the home’s lighting sources.